Timeline for Can anyone decipher the comment above Louis' name on this 1940 census record?
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| Dec 5, 2012 at 14:35 | comment | added | bgwiehle | The instructions to the enumerators including documenting people at their usual residence and marking them as absent. Why the enumerator didn't use the proper notation is unknown, but would be in keeping with some of the interpretations of the note. | |
| Dec 5, 2012 at 12:28 | comment | added | user104 | @efgen, I could make an argument purely from the text for "Party has moved here" if I had to guess the last word. | |
| Dec 5, 2012 at 6:01 | comment | added | efgen | "Party has moved" is a popular suggestion (I posted the images to FB too). However, censuses are intended to be a snapshot of the population on a specific date. For 1940, that date was April 1, 1940. So there shouldn't be commentary on the census about someone moving since then -- and I've never seen such a comment on any other census page that I've looked at in my 10+ years doing genealogy. Also, it's only Louis' name that is boxed off with the comment, not the entire family. So if this is about him moving, I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around why the comment was written :-) | |
| Dec 4, 2012 at 21:59 | comment | added | RobertShaw | I'd go with "Party has moved now". This might be in reference to any follow-up check that might be made for verification. | |
| Dec 4, 2012 at 17:27 | comment | added | Eileen Eilis Morey | I agree with "party has moved," but I think the next part may indicate how long ago, such as "6 mos." | |
| Dec 4, 2012 at 10:47 | history | answered | user104 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |